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Author
Series
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Get ready to learn all about the fun, action, and excitement of America's favorite pastime! [This book] packs all the fun trivia, incredible facts, and amazing history of America's national pastime into one grand slam of a book! Inside this all-new edition, you'll find tons of stats on star players, great teams, and thrilling championships -- updated through the 2021 season. And you'll learn about the rules of the game and ways to develop your own...
2) The best team money can buy: the Los Angeles Dodgers' wild struggle to build a baseball powerhouse
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The inside-the-clubhouse story of two tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were re-made from top to bottom, from the ownership of the team to management to the players on the field, becoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball"--Publisher description.
4) Trophy night
Author
Series
Little Rhino volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Mustangs have had an incredible year, and a lot of that has to do with Rhino's teamwork and leadership. When Rhino hears about the end-of-the-season awards dinner, he wonders if he'll win one of the trophies.
Author
Series
Little Rhino volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Coach Ray has some exciting news! After a great season, the Mustangs made it into a tournament. They get to travel to the capital and play against the best teams in the state. It's a huge honor and everyone is super excited to go. But then Rhino realizes that he's going to have to sleep in a hotel. Away from Grandpa James and his brother. He's never stayed away from his house before. If Rhino is this nervous, will he be able to concentrate on the...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"[T]he Moneyball era is over. Fifteen years after Michael Lewis brought the Oakland Athletics' groundbreaking team-building strategies to light, every front office takes a data-driven approach to evaluating players, and the league's smarter teams no longer have a huge advantage in valuing past performance. Lindbergh and Sawchik's behind-the-scenes reporting reveals: How the 2017 Astros and 2018 Red Sox used cutting-edge technology to win the World...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of the Baseball Hall of Fame honorees, tracing how the Acerra family of New Jersey formed their own semi-pro baseball team in the 1930s and became the longest-running all-brother team in history.
11) The inside game: bad calls, strange moves, and what baseball behavior teaches us about ourselves
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Keith Law applies Daniel Kahneman's ideas about decision making to the game of baseball, and deepens our knowledge of the sport in this fun and deeply informative book.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It's the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That's what baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an independent minor-league team in California, the Sonoma Stompers, offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. Their story in The Only Rule is it...
13) The final season
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Norway, Iowa, the high school baseball team is led by legendary Coach Jim Van Scoyoc who has won 19 State Championships. But the small town heroes are dealt a series of unexpected blows that threaten to rob them of their 20th championship win. Talk of a school merger gets serious and Coach Scoyoc is fired. His replacement is his 24-year-old assistant coach, Kent Stock. Failure seems inevitable. Based on the true story of Kent...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 122
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Aldens help out at a minor league stadium and investigate when it appears someone in the ballpark is stealing the home team pitcher's signals and relaying them to the batters of the other team.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The former ESPN columnist and analytics pioneer dramatically recreates an action-packed 2017 game between the Oakland A's and eventual World Series Champion Houston Astros to reveal the myriad ways in which Major League Baseball has changed over the last few decades. On September 8, 2017, the Oakland A's faced off against the Houston Astros in a game that would signal the passing of the Moneyball mantle. Though this was only one regular season game,...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A team of nice Jewish baseball players takes on the world. It is the David-and-Goliath story of Israel's national baseball team as it competes for the first time in the World Baseball Classic. After years of crushing defeats, Israel finally ranks among the world's best in 2017. Its roster includes many Jewish-American major leaguers, most with a tenuous relationship to Judaism, barely any ever having set foot in Israel.
Series
Again!! volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The ouendan's members have taken their performance to a new level in support of their baseball team, and now it's up to Suzuki, the team's feckless ace pitcher, to seal the deal. One problem: Suzuki may have a golden arm, but he doesn't have nerves to match. When he hears that his crush, Reo, was spotted kissing Kinichiro, the guy he owes his comeback to, he's terminally rattled. It'll be up to Kinichiro to rescue Suzuki's crumbling will to fight..."--...
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